chrisallenlane

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by chrisallenlane 2y ago
I've been running Gitea on my homelab for a few months now. It's fantastic. It's like a snapshot of a point in time when GitHub was actually good, before it got enshittified by all of the social and AI nonsense. I've bee
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by chrisallenlane 2y ago
> If this is indeed the "future of making movies," I dunno, I can't speak for anyone but myself, but I have no interest in watching anything made this way. I'm still burned out on "regular" CG in movies. I&#
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by chrisallenlane 2y ago
`unp` does this as well: https://packages.debian.org/sid/unp
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by chrisallenlane 2y ago
> Advertising: perhaps the best and most effective involuntary ally of the Puritan movement. Which is weird, given that "sex sells."
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by chrisallenlane 2y ago
> Personal branches, not forks > With Grace, there's no need for forking entire repositories just to make contributions. In open-source repos, you'll just create a personal branch against the repo. > This is what everyone
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by chrisallenlane 2y ago
I think Honda's brand is a genuine advantage. They know how to make good cars, and people trust them as a result. I'm in my 40s, but still only on my second car, which is an old Honda Civic. I plan to drive it until I can purchase
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by chrisallenlane 2y ago
I've also been using (and paying for) Kagi for a few months now. It's fantastic.
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by chrisallenlane 3y ago
Same here. I've found that I currently only want to use an LLM to solve relatively "dumb" problems (boilerplate generation, rubber-ducking, etc), and the locally-hosted stuff works great for that. Also, I've found that G
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by chrisallenlane 3y ago
Hope 2024 is better for you!
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by chrisallenlane 3y ago
FWIW, at least on current-generation NUCs, you can set the fan profile to "Quiet" from within the BIOS. Doing this solved the problem for me.
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by chrisallenlane 3y ago
I can't read the "Nobody Knows What’s Happening Online Anymore" article because it's behind a paywall.
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by chrisallenlane 3y ago
If you want Debian with a nice desktop plus some common packages installed, IMO Linux Mint Debian Edition (IMDE) is a great option: https://www.linuxmint.com/download_lmde.php
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by chrisallenlane 3y ago
In my experience, it's more helpful in some areas than others. This year I used GPT-4 to write a significant amount of Terraform that was necessary to migrate an application onto AWS. Writing Terraform, in my opinion, is problem that&#
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by chrisallenlane 3y ago
FWIW, I don't have any pets (and haven't for some time), but I receive physical mail regarding dog food, dog toys, etc, all the time. There's a chance you've been fooled by randomness here. That said, there's certai
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by chrisallenlane 3y ago
You can ask it to provide links to primary sources as part of your prompt. This helps quite a bit with this problem.
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by chrisallenlane 3y ago
I'm pretty sure every film since Spirited Away has been his last film. And I hope he has many more last films - they're all wonderful.
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by chrisallenlane 3y ago
I agree. Also, I've had good luck asking GPT-4 to cite sources with its replies. It speeds up the process of fact-checking, and makes "hallucination" detection trivial. (Does the link 404?) Obviously it's not perfect, bu
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by chrisallenlane 3y ago
I stopped using Stack Overflow years ago when they went on their jihad to remove "please," "thanks," etc from all posts. I understand the motivation to keep "noise" low, but I disagree that civility is noise.
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by chrisallenlane 3y ago
I missed your reply a few days ago. Sorry! And thank you for taking the time. I'm terrible at marketing myself. I suppose that is a hurdle that I must overcome. I'll check out your projects to see what I can learn. Congrats on you
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by chrisallenlane 3y ago
> I sometimes learn something new by answering a question from someone who is looking at things from a different direction than I am, or discussing something I don't have a quick answer to This can happen on Slack or whatever too, b
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by chrisallenlane 3y ago
Yeah. One of my favorite things about working remote is that people can't do this to me. It's a feature, not a bug.
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by chrisallenlane 3y ago
I maintain one or two projects that are somewhat popular, and I'd love to monetize them (without compromising my FOSS ideals) so I could work on them more. That said - perhaps I haven't looked hard enough, but it just doesn't
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by chrisallenlane 3y ago
Work-from-home (as much as I love it) has also killed the "second place" for a lot of people. Not to mention grocery delivery apps and such. Just speaking personally, it's perhaps a little too easy to never leave my home. D
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by chrisallenlane 3y ago
Oh, neat. Thanks for the tip. I usually say "Please continue," but sometimes it reiterates too much of what it stated previously. (I've tried "Please continue where you left off," and so far that has worked 1/1
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by chrisallenlane 4y ago
I'm the author/maintainer of an open-source project that receives a relatively large number of pull-requests. FWIW, if you're contributing to a sufficiently large project, it's entirely possible that the maintainers don&
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by chrisallenlane 4y ago
Southerner here. The correct form is "all a y'alls."
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by chrisallenlane 4y ago
I'd be incredibly interested to hear the rationale for this decision. Seems like an obviously disastrous idea.
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by chrisallenlane 4y ago
TIL that my `.xsession-errors` file is ~16GB. Thanks, `ncdu`! (I should probably look into this...)
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by chrisallenlane 4y ago
I've been doing retro (Pico-8) indie game dev for about 2 years now, and I've been having a lot of fun with it. It's great because: - It exposes me to entirely new classes of problems (pathfinding, graphics math, ai, etc), wh
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by chrisallenlane 4y ago
I'll second this. I keep one at my desk now. Between switching to a standing desk and the Theragun, my hips/back/neck are in much better shape than they were a few years ago.

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